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37 Cards in this Set
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On February 4, 1861, Which states established the Confederate states of America? (11)
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Mississippi South Carolina Georgia Alabama Florida Louisiana Texas Virginia Arkansas Tennessee North Carolina
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Who was named president of the Confederacy and where was he from?
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Jefferson Davis Mississippi
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On April 12, 1861........ on the Union military base at .......
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Confederates Fried
Fort Sumter |
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Use of naval forces to isolate AC port and prevent ships from entering or leaving
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Blockade |
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What was the second capital of the Confederacy?
The first was...? |
Richmond, Virginia
Montgomery, Alabama |
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A defended position
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Redoubt
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General grants army assembled a supply ..... at Holly Spring and ..... (camped with little shelter) at Oxford in the fall of 1862
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Depot Bivouacked |
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The fighting lasted into the late .... and ...... became one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War
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Afternoon Shiloh |
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The Confederates had 11,000 ......( persons killed wounded or missing in battle) and the union had 13,000.
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Casualties
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Discuss- Vicksburg strategic location on the high bluffs above a sharp bend in the river gave its......... |
Shore batteries control over the traffic up and down the great River
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David Farragut, A veteran flag officer, captured ..... on May 1, 1862, And then sale his fleet up the Mississippi River to capture ..... |
New Orleans
Natchez |
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In December 1862, General Grants Army which included troops under the command of ....., moved .... and occupied .....
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General William T. Sherman Oxford |
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Grant decided to march his men down the .... side of the Mississippi River and cross over into ..... south of .....
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Louisiana Mississippi Vicksburg |
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To cover himself as well as possible, and to disguise his strategy, Grant devised several .....
Most important diversion was a ...... |
Diversionary attacks Calvary raid |
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In the dark of night on April 16, 1863 Rear Admiral Porters fleet of eight gunboats and two transports ....... The big guns at Vicksburg and ......... (came together at an appointed place) with ....... south is the city.
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Sailed past Rendezvoused Grants troops |
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General Grant concentrated his forces on the ....... of the city and places Vicksburg under siege.
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Outskirts |
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A ..... is a tactic where armed forces try to capture a fort or fortified town by surrounding it and preventing supplies from reaching it |
Siege |
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Finally on July 3, 1863 general Pemberton met with General Grant who demanded unconditional ......
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Surrender
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On January 1, 1863 President ..... issued the ........ which ....... in those states in rebellion against the United States
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Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation proclamation Freed all the slaves |
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Vicksburg had become the ...... of the war and the rebels considered it an "....." ( unconquerable) fortress.
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Focal point
Impregnable |
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Making the shock of the fall of Vicksburg even more disheartening was the news of General Lee's ................ on July 3, 1863
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Defeat at Gettysburg |
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In Mississippi they were two phases of ..... ( The time of rebuilding the south in restoring southern states to the union after the Civil War)
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Re-construction
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When Abraham Lincoln initiated reconstruction he initiated a proclamation of ...... ( pardon granted to a large group of individuals)
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Amnesty |
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Under Lincolns plan a Confederate state would be ...... to the union give ..% of eight eligible voters took the oath of ..... in formed a state government that promise to be legal to the Union
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Re admitted Eligible voters 10 Allegiance |
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President Johnson directed governor Sharky to assemble. ......... in Jackson to ..... The ordinace of secession and to extend the rights of full citizenship to former slaves who were then identified as ....
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constitutional convention Nullify Freedom |
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The status of freed men in America had not been determined they were free but they were citizens entitled to the same rights as white citizens
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After Much discussion debate controversy and compromise the Mississippi legislator passed the black codes A set of laws that governed and regulated the lives of freed men in Mississippi
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After President Johnson tried to block The implement of the reconstruction and ask Congress impeach the president in 1868
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Impeachment is a formal charge brought against an elected official
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White Mississippians who joined the Republican Party and supported the rights of citizenship for blacks were called Scalwags By Mississippians who opposed raciall Equality
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Another group of loyal mean were carpet naggers (northwrns who remained in the south or moved to the south after the civil war)
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President Ulysses S Grant sad the resolution on February 23, 1870 there by Mississippi to its proper relations within the union.
The most important achievement of reconstruction was the establishment of a state wide system of public school |
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As the opposition to black schools intensified, several organizations were formed along white Mississippians to discourage blacks from attending school and to intimidate northern teachers.
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In the summer of 1874, during city election in Vicksburg, racial disturbances were frequent and eventually culminated in a full scale riot. The Vicksburg riot occurred after a predominantly black and jury and indicated the black sheriff and several other county officials. DISCUSS |
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To minimize the impact of blacks in congressional elections, (!3 democratic legislator places all the black majority counties along the Mississippi River in the sixth continental district which became known as the shoestring district. |
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Ulysses S Grant. Became the .... |
18th president |
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Blanche K Bruce became the first ... |
African American president |
